<div dir="ltr">This is interesting, and it made me a little less depressed. I'm pro development, building up, but the speed at which things are taking place in Oakland has me taken aback. here is an interesting article someone passed along to me...  <br clear="all">
<div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/04/gentrification-report-proposes-bold-solutions-to-stop-displacement-in-oakland/">http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/04/gentrification-report-proposes-bold-solutions-to-stop-displacement-in-oakland/</a></div>
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Proposals to protect Oakland's historic residents from displacement. Photo by Laura McCamy <span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(204,204,204);font-size:14px!important">♦</span></h3>
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Last week Causa Justa::Just Cause (<a href="http://www.cjjc.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,145,0);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">CJJC</a>) released a report titled Development Without Displacement: Resisting Gentrification in the Bay Area. The 112-page document, prepared in collaboration with the <a href="http://www.acphd.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,145,0);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">Alameda County Public Health Department</a>, goes beyond describing the <a title="Study finds gentrification in Oakland hurts public health" href="http://oaklandlocal.com/2014/04/study-finds-gentrification-in-oakland-hurts-public-health/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,145,0);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">public health implications</a> of gentrification to proposing steps that cities like Oakland can take to stop displacement of historic residents.</p>
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Six key principles create a framework for the report’s policy recommendations:</p><ol style="margin:0px 0px 20px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style-position:initial">
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Baseline protections for vulnerable residents</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:url(http://static.oaklandlocal.com/wp-content/themes/urbannews/framework/images/red_bull.gif);background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">
Production and preservation of affordable housing</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:url(http://static.oaklandlocal.com/wp-content/themes/urbannews/framework/images/red_bull.gif);background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">
Stabilization of existing communities</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:url(http://static.oaklandlocal.com/wp-content/themes/urbannews/framework/images/red_bull.gif);background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">
Non-market based approaches to housing and community development</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:url(http://static.oaklandlocal.com/wp-content/themes/urbannews/framework/images/red_bull.gif);background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">
Displacement prevention as a regional priority</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px 0px 0px 15px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:url(http://static.oaklandlocal.com/wp-content/themes/urbannews/framework/images/red_bull.gif);background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">
Planning as a participatory process</li></ol><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:22px!important">“Because gentrification is an issue that crosses various different kinds of aspects, you actually do need a variety of policy strategies,” said Maria Zamudio, San Francisco Housing Rights Organizer with CJJC.  “There is no silver bullet to take on the housing crisis.”</p>
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The report classifies neighborhoods by their place on a spectrum of gentrification. “Gentrification in different neighborhoods is in different stages, so the need for policy interventions is different,” she said.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Source Sans Pro',HelveticaNeue-Light,Arial,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:22px!important">
The report lays out proposed policies, including <a href="http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca/groups/ceda/documents/policy/dowd008118.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,145,0);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">just cause eviction</a> ordinances, proactive code enforcement to make sure current affordable housing stock is maintained, inclusive zoning that mandates affordable housing be part of development projects, and community trainings to encourage resident participation in planning processes. A proposed community health impact analysis of new projects would be designed to help cities like Oakland welcome much-needed development while mitigating displacement.</p>
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Protesting urban renewal in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. Photo courtesy of Causa Justa</p></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Source Sans Pro',HelveticaNeue-Light,Arial,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:22px!important">
“Right of first refusal” and “reparation and return” policies would allow residents displaced by habitability issues or urban renewal the opportunity to return to their former homes. A “<a href="http://www.mapc.org/sites/default/files/One%20for%20One%20Affordable%20Housing%20Replacement%20Ordinances.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,145,0);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">No Net Loss</a>” policy would “require all affordable units lost through renovation, conversion, or demolition be replaced within the same neighborhood if possible and within the same city at a minimum.” Public data on civic investment and demographic changes by neighborhood would highlight areas of  neglect and displacement where resources are most needed.</p>
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The report advocates against the market-driven planning process that is the norm in cities throughout the Bay Area. Instead, it suggests, cities should invest in affordable housing through <a href="http://cltnetwork.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,145,0);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">Community Land Trusts</a> and <a href="http://www.policylink.org/site/c.lkIXLbMNJrE/b.5137049/k.A9DF/Limited_Equity_Housing_Coop.htm" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,145,0);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">Limited Equity Housing Co-Ops</a> and levy taxes aimed at making real estate speculation less attractive to investors.</p>
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Some of the proposals in the report are already being implemented in other cities. San Francisco is listed as a model for a number of the proposals. Yet displacement is, if anything, a bigger problem in that city than in Oakland. “We’re seeing a compounding of impacts,” said Zamudio. “Planning by the city has been in line with changes that the speculative market wants.” She noted that demographic shifts, as working class residents are pushed out, compound the problem by raising the median income and, with it, the threshold for affordable housing. “The income of the city is unbalanced,” she said, which leads to increasing challenges in finding housing affordable to working class residents.</p>
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Public development expenditures in Oakland. Chart by Causa Justa</p></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Source Sans Pro',HelveticaNeue-Light,Arial,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:22px!important">
Robbie Clark, Regional Housing Rights Campaign Lead Organizer with CJJC, sums up the recommendations as “Community health upheld over profit.”</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Source Sans Pro',HelveticaNeue-Light,Arial,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:22px!important">
“Money shouldn’t dictate how much power people have in land use developments,” Zamudio said, adding that community investment should also have value.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Source Sans Pro',HelveticaNeue-Light,Arial,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);line-height:22px!important">
Clark sees several opportunities to put these policy recommendations into practice in Oakland, starting with keeping the pressure on the city council to make sure the proposed rent control changes which strengthen tenant protections, is approved when it comes before the council on <a href="https://oakland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=305862&GUID=D21765D0-49F4-4451-976B-FEA59ACDF5BB&Options=info|&Search=" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,145,0);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">April 22 and May 6</a>.</p>
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In May, CJJC will begin a campaign to put an ordinance on the November ballot that will go after some of the strategies landlords use to get around just cause eviction laws: allowing units to become uninhabitable and harassing tenants. “This is a problem that the city knows about,” Clark said, noting that landlords may threaten to call the police or <a href="http://www.ice.gov/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(255,145,0);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">ICE</a> if tenants complain about unhealthy living conditions. “We believe some protections need to be put in place to punish landlords that do this.”</p>
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The ballot measure would institute fines for failure to maintain habitable rental units and for threatening or harassing tenants. Pointing out that 90 percent of Oakland’s housing stock was built prior to 1978, Clark said the aim of the proposed law is “making sure that people can stay in the places where they live now.”</p>
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“There has been a significant shift in who owns properties, especially in heavily gentrified areas,” Clark noted. The rise in investor ownership of previously owner-occupied properties has lead to more rentals in Oakland that aren’t covered by the tenant protection laws. “This would be a significant piece of legislation to protect all tenants and not just tenants covered under the rent stabilization law,” he said.</p>
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“As we legislate against a problem, we’re never going to legislate a complete solution,” Zamudio said. “Policy interventions will always have loopholes and the market with continue to shift to find ways to make a profit.” This is why, she added, organizing and strong community involvement are crucial.</p>
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<div><br></div><div>=============================</div><div><br></div><div>Romy Ilano</div><div><a href="mailto:romy@snowyla.com" target="_blank">romy@snowyla.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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